Skilled Healthcare Group to Present at the RBC Global Healthcare Conference on February 29, 2012

FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., Feb. 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. (NYSE: SKH) today announced that Jose Lynch, President, and Dev Ghose, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present at the RBC Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time. The conference is being held at the New York Palace in New York City.

A copy of the presentation slides will be available on the Company's web site at www.skilledhealthcaregroup.com prior to Skilled Healthcare Group's scheduled appearance.

About Skilled Healthcare Group

Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc., based in Foothill Ranch, California, is a holding company with subsidiary healthcare services companies, which in the aggregate had trailing twelve month revenue of approximately $870 million and approximately 13,800 employees as of December 31, 2011. Skilled Healthcare Group and its wholly-owned companies, collectively referred to as the "Company," operate long-term care facilities and provide a wide range of post-acute care services, with a strategic emphasis on sub-acute specialty health care. The Company operates long-term care facilities in California, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, including 74 skilled nursing facilities that offer sub-acute care and rehabilitative and specialty health skilled nursing care, and 23 assisted living facilities that provide room and board and social services. In addition, the Company provides physical, occupational and speech therapy in Company-operated facilities and unaffiliated facilities. Furthermore, the Company provides hospice and home health care in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico and Nevada. The Company leases 5 skilled nursing facilities in California to an unaffiliated third party operator. References made in this release to "Skilled Healthcare," "the Company," "we," "us" and "our" refer to Skilled Healthcare Group, Inc. and each of its wholly-owned companies. More information about Skilled Healthcare is available at www.skilledhealthcaregroup.com.